May we jump to conclusions now?

Intelligence officials were aware of Hasan's efforts to contact Al Qaeda

Joe Lieberman is calling it potential terrorism. Does it matter whether he actually made the contact with Al Qaeda? Freelance terrorists shoot you just as dead as formally affiliated ones...

(Snarky side thought. How humiliating it will be for him to come out of his coma and discover he was taken down by a teeny-tiny woman.)